Ron has an interest in theatre, was Founding Director of the Amateur Cumberland Theatre Society and served for a period of time as the Northern Area representative for the Eastern Ontario Drama League. Educationally, Ron has a BSc and an MBA in Finance/Marketing.
Ron has long had an interest in photography and traveling and since retiring from a position of Director, Client Services, has had more time to devote to both activities. Now retired from his regular career, he is spending more time on his photography. Ron is definitely 50+ and is now being asked to show his i.d. again!!! – to verify that he qualifies for advertised discounts :-)!
The advent of the digital SLR camera, and the ease of the internet blogging process, has provided a venue for sharing of Ron’s photography and travel experience at the local, national and international level. Ron enjoys adding insight into many of the subjects that he photographs and, wherever feasible, adds an educational component to the postings. Ron continues his interest in public speaking with a series of entertaining and informative travelogue presentations. His individual photos continue to be in demand, with frequent requests from publishers, individuals, and both for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises. A significant number of Ron’s bird photos are in on-line databases with international scope.
He passed away in 2016 surrounded by his loving wife and children.
About MegaPixelTravel: Our current project involves consolidating 10,000+ on-line photos into the blog format of the www.megapixeltravel.com website. Work continues on that project with new material, as well as material previously posted elsewhere, being added almost daily. Ron has been approached about developing some tour packages. Nothing has been finalized in that regard but he is considering some options.
About the Music Cassettes: Over time, Ron has accumulated a significant number of music cassettes which he listens to while processing and uploading photos. Tough to tell what genre of music he might be listening to at any given time but if it’s on cassette you know that it is at least 5 years old! :-). One of Ron’s other rainy-day projects is to photograph the cassette inserts and include them along with a track list as an easy reference point for those who have an interest in ‘older’ music. You can follow the progress of that project here: Cassettes – 2600+ and counting
Hi Ron,
I have added your website to my favourites and will be checking in periodically for updates.
Thanks Ann. I’ll try to get shots of more than just wild animals when Graeme and I are in Kenya/Tanzania. One of the downsides of travel is the shots, vaccines, etc. Needed to get shot for Yellow Fever so got that last night. I think I’m up to date on all my shots now, I hope :-).
Hey Ron love the new blog. I have not been using flickr as much and putting more time into blogging. Enjoy your trip.
Greg:
Graeme is doing all of the behind-the-scenes design work on our blog.
I’m having fun posting blogs of many, many past events as well as things as they happen to happen.
I like Flickr for certain reasons but really enjoy the ability to more easily intersperse text, story, information and generally just about anything I want into the blog format.
Enjoyed a short look at your blog and will be back again for sure. BTW your yellow evergreens among the green are tamaracks (larch), that lose their needles each Fall and then burst out in a beautiful fuzzy new light green growth in the Spring.
Fantastic photos..as usual, by a ..50+..
thank you for your card..your work is truly stunning. i’ll ckeck back for the sunrise at trapp’s, but even if you slept in ..again i thank you for allowing me a little time to see such splendid pictures of our world.
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Ron — great blog and photos as always, you’ve been a huge inspiration to me and I wish you the best in your future!
Thanks Aaron. It’s lots of work Graeme and me but fun to know that others are enjoying what we photograph and write. Best of success with your blogging development.
Hi Editor,
I’m writing to you because I’d love to contribute a guest post.
I know since you write about “Travel Tips” topic and your readers love it I was thinking of writing something along these lines:
-The 30 Cheapest Places To Travel In 2017
-Travel America with Cheap Amtrak Train Tickets & Prices as Low as $213
-27-Year-Old Woman To Become First Female Ever To Visit Every Country On Earth
I’ll make sure to add research backed content that your readers will love. Let me know what you think. I’m excited to start writing.
Best
David